The potential limitations on its basin decision-making processes of granting self-defence rights to Father Rhine

Bettina Wilk, Dries L. T. Hegger, Carel Dieperink, Rakhyun E. Kim and Peter P. J. Driessen

Water International, 2019, vol. 44, issue 6-7, 684-700

Abstract: Recent grants of legal rights to rivers would seem to infuse traditional anthropocentric river governance with greater eco-centrism. Through a thought experiment, we scrutinize this proposition for the Rhine basin. We consider the governance implications of granting (procedural/material) rights to the river and elaborate on their implications for the three highly institutionalized regimes of the Rhine River of water quality, flooding and transport. Since we find that a shift to more eco-centrism has already occurred and since the right granted to the river would not be absolute, we deem radical transformations unlikely.

Date: 2019
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